Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No one could have predicted…

In my day, never was longer.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Everybody saw this coming.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Books are my comfort food!

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

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  2. 2.

    hells littlest angel

    I’ll do anything I can to help, cross my heart and hope to di —

     

    [This WordPress account has been temporarily suspended.]

  4. 4.

    A Ghost to Most

    To quote the nazi base:

    “If’n y’all ain’t rubbin’, y’all ain’t racin'”

  8. 8.

    satby

    Yeah, I got the bad poster timeout for calling it the White (trash) House. But at least you shared the lentil soup recipe first.

  9. 9.

    donnah

    I noticed a big surge in blank twitter posts a few days ago as they started deleting “questionable” posts. It made me realize that there are a lot of people who would have been happy to see Trump’s demise and say so.

    I love John’s tweets and hope he gets his voice back soon, if he hasn’t already. They’re fun and funny. Like the “pot pie being basically soup with a lid.”

  14. 14.

    Leto

    So “the Squad” (AOC and company) can get death threats/threats of violence on Twitter all day long, but president* dum-dum is off-limits. BuT LiB-rUl bIAs!!!! Conservatives are down trodden!

    Fucking hate all these platforms.

  19. 19.

    Shakti

    One of my mutuals got baninnated for telling trolls happy over RGB’s death to go fuck themselves and to suck her dick.   She moved more of her activities to IG.

     

    All of these simpering pious god-botherers saying “I’ll pray for you” while reciting Psalm 109:6-20 during the Obama years? Not a peep about that.

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    Betty

    Twitter jail is often incomprehensible. At least they told you what you did wrong. The last time they suspended me, I protested and they unsuspended me. Never did understand why.

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    MazeDancer

    Think GOP trolls are doing the Trump+die search.

    They know it is a rich time for reporting, so they’re taking advantage of it.

    Remove the tweets as requested, John, get released, then craft a dozen more. Just use Orange One, or something like it, instead of Trump.

    Also, asking your speculation as a question works. Then you’re just asking, not “abusing”.

  29. 29.

    Ken

    @MazeDancer: Also, asking your speculation as a question works.

    It’s well-known that appending “?” to a political slander makes it perfectly innocent.  In this context it is sometimes called the “Fox mark”.  For example:  “Did Joe Biden eat the flesh of infants before his debate?”

  36. 36.

    Barbara

    @trollhattan: “Reality” shows are not nearly as enjoyable to live through as they are to watch on tv.  “Watch me burn down the house!” isn’t much fun when it’s your house.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Betty: I was put in jail for commenting that KAC congratulating Smokey Eye’s replacement was “a bitch congratulating a bitch replacing a bitch.”

    Then I was suspended indefinitely for referring to Robert L. Johnson with two words:  “Uncle Tom.”

  42. 42.

    Oklahomo

    I got twitter jailed twice; once for tweeting horse poop at the president with “too many hashtags;” so I deleted those and retweeted horse poop with no hash tags.  Another time there was no reason and when I appealed, everything went back to normal with no reasons ever stated.

  43. 43.

    Mai Naem mobile

    My twitter got suspended once for calling Doug Ducey,  Dougie Dougie Douchebag. The thing is mentally I still think of him as Dougie Dougie Douchebag .

  44. 44.

    Citizen Alan

    @Leto: Fucking hate all these platforms.

    My account was suspended permanently. I don’t even know which tweet it was that did it, but I’m sure it was some butthurt MAGAt that reported it. I’ve thought about getting a new account, but Twitter brings out the absolute worst in me, even worse than FB. (Hell, I’ve pruned my Friends list down to 30 people, and I still have to control my temper when one Friend’s “Racist Aunt Sally ™” pisses me off.

  46. 46.

    Citizen Alan

    @Shakti:

    All of these simpering pious god-botherers saying “I’ll pray for you” while reciting Psalm 109:6-20 during the Obama years? Not a peep about that.

    About the only thing that keeps me from becoming an outright Atheist is that I cling to the hope of seeing these assholes’ faces on Judgment Day when Christ tells them to their ugly faces “I never knew you! Depart!” before sending them all to Hell.

  47. 47.

    qkslvrwolf

    ye gods, you only got 12 hours? Mine was basically the same, but I got 7 days!

    probably fewer follower counts = longer bans.

    Meanwhile, a million people tell the squad and well..every woman on twitter they’re going to kill them PERSONALLY every day, and..nothing

  50. 50.

    Searcher

    So you’ve only publicly, on twitter, wished death on Trump twice in the last decade?

    You’d think it be more.

  51. 51.

    The Enderville Phantom

    Free John Cole!

     

    Print up the t-shirts and posters.

     

    This aggression cannot stand man.

  52. 52.

    Eric K

    I got a 24 hour ban from them once because I told a Republican congressman to go fuck himself, very worth it.

  54. 54.

    tinare

    I was knocked off once for saying someone should die in prison. I tried to argue with Twitter that I wasn’t actually wishing them death, that I actually was wishing for a long life, just a longer prison sentence, but I still had to take my 48 hours.

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    J R in WV

     

    So seriously, someone wishing death from Covid-19 on Trump gets banned from Twitter, yet promising to kill AOC after raping her is OK?

    That’s pretty sick, folks.

    Glad I never signed up for Twitter.

    I may have started a signup for Facebook back when it was a tiny startup, if so I don’t remember user name nor password. Pretty sure I never signed in and perhaps didn’t complete the account. Never use it even as a visitor, have their trackers blocked with multiple tools.

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